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10 November 2009
Following the execution of eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese individual, charged with offences committed during the July riots, the authorities have prosecuted a further 20 suspects.
15 October 2009
Mongolian prisoner
Buuveibaatar has had his death sentence commuted after being granted a
pardon by the country's President, Ts. Elbegdorj.
17 September 2009
The new bylaw endorses stoning to death for adultery and caning for homosexuality. It also forbids alcohol consumption, gambling and intimacy between unmarried couples.
26 August 2009
Two men convicted of drug trafficking in 2001, have been put to death by lethal injection. They were the first to be executed in Thailand since 2003.
19 August 2009
A tireless campaigner against the death penalty and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Kim Dae-jung leaves a legacy of commitment to human rights and democracy.
31 July 2009
The recent hangings of three men brings the total number of executions carried out in Japan this year to seven, while other countries reject capital punishment.
14 July 2009
The Papua New Guinea government should abolish the death penalty
instead of putting it back into effect, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty
International said in a joint
28 May 2009
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
14 May 2009
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces trial on Monday
after an American man is alleged to have swum across the lake in
front of her house and stayed there
23 March 2009
More people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world
in 2008. By contrast, in Europe, only one country continues to use
the death penalty: Belarus.
16 February 2009
The South Korean government is deciding whether to resume its use of the death penalty, following the arrest of a man for the alleged murder of seven women.
28 January 2009
In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama rejected as "false" the choice between safety and respect for human rights.
18 December 2008
Over one hundred countries voted overwhelmingly in favour of a second
resolution on "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty" at the
United Nations on T
03 December 2008
Wo Weihan, a 59-year-old medical scientist who was found guilty of
spying for Taiwan, was executed in China on Friday. His daughters and
his son-in-law describe how
28 November 2008
The execution of a Chinese scientist on Friday is the latest in a
series of executions that are going against the global trend towards a
moratorium on the death pena
13 November 2008
The Afghan government executed nine people last week. President Hamid Karzai has recently approved death
sentences for at least another 111.
